wit quotes

Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.

-Webster,John
  The Duchess of Malfi, act1, sc.1.

Wit ismore necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

-Wycherley,William
  The CountryWife, act1, sc.1.

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